Newspaper Page Text
VOLUME XII.
ATLANTA. GA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1913.
NO. 97.
Manner of Procedure in Inves
tigation Authorized by House
Mapped Out Behind Closed
Doors
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 28.—At 2 o'clock
this afternoon the judiciary committee
of the house met behind closed doors
to outline a plan of procedure with ref
erence to the preliminary investigation
of Judge Emory Speer’s official conduct.
It was expected that Chairman Clayton
would have an announcement to make
after the meeting adjourned.
The general understanding his morn
ing, prior to the meeting, was the com
mittee will decide definitely to take
testimony in Georgia through a sub
committee, but that no move in this di
rection will be made until “frost forms
on the pumpkin vines.”
The sub-committee, however, will be
directed to proceed immediately with
an analysis and classification of the
charges contained in the special exam
iner’s report, so that the taking of tes
timony will be expedited and the com
mittee enabled to formulate a report for
the next session of congress.
Wilson to
Mexican
Arrange
Armistice?
SAY pa D ,
|sa„0VIMG PAY
NEARLY
AU. RUj-HT ,
OLD LADY, GrOESS
You'll, meed a
little chamqe
To PAY THE
MOVINQ
Rumor Circulated in Washington Says Huerta Has Yielded
Practically All of Demands Made by United States' and
Will Let Wilson Act as Sponsor in Arranging Armistice,
Pending Constitutional Election of Mexic Chief
' BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—A rumor Is in circulation liere that the Huerta
crowd in Mexico has yielded practically everything President Wilson has de
manded, and that the president will act as sponsor in the business of arrang
ing an armistice pending a constitutional election of president of Mexico.
No official confirmation of this rumor can he secured in Washington. All
authorities having heard of it, although there is an atmosphere of expectan
cy, indicating that the administration has reason to be looking for information
of a definite character from Mexico very soon.
LARGE FORTUNE INCOMES
TO GET HEAVIER TUXES
Threatened Break Over Tar
iff Bill Avoided by Re
vision Agreement
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—An insur-
• gent movement among Democratic sena
tors that threatened to break party lines
or the income tax was headed off by the
leaders today by an agreement t£ revise
• the tariff bill so as to levy a heavier tax
on the incomes from large fortunes.
* Insurgent leaders began with a demand
for a party conference and claimed the
support of twenty-seven Democratic
senators of% the fifty in the senate in
support of an increase in the tax. They
finally agreed to withdraw their demand
for a . special caucus but the question
will'be taken up in a party conference
tomorrow or Saturday.
, It is understood that Democratic lead
.ers have agreed to a revision of the in
. come tax section, so that the extra tax
on incomes of more than $100,000 will
be 6 per cent, with an increase reaching
10 per cent on incomes of half a mil
lion dollars. The bill as it now stands
provides only 3 per cent tax above $100,-
»>00. The present rates on incomes be
tween $20,000 and $100,000 also will be
increased.
The agreement to redraft the bill came
after Senator Vardanian left the party
ranks and voted for Senator LaFollette’s
amendment to increase the rates, and
Senators Reed. Thompson and Ashurst
had threatened to take similar action.
Senator McCumber’s amendment to
start the tax at incomes of $1,000 and
increasing to 7 1-2 per cent on $100,000
and over, was defeated without a roll
call, as was a similar one by Senator
Poindexter.
Steerage Rushes Guards
/4s Big Imperator Blazes
Second Officer Perishes Q|fjLS TO TAKE STAND
7SL?£SZ\ AGAINST CAMINETTI
: i
World’s Bigeest Vessel
Tell of Trip to Reno and j
Life in Bungalow in
That City
TO LIST ALL ELIGIBLES
FOR SMALL P0ST0FFICES
Postoffice Department Will
Have Records of All Ap
plicants Examined
BY RALPH SMITH. I t
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—The gigan
tic task of making h list of eligibles for
all of the fourth class postoffices in the
United States with salaries of less than
$180 a year has been undertaken by the
postoffice department under the general
supervision of Chief Postoffice Inspector
Joe P. Johnston. There are 992 of
these offices in the Atlanta division, of
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—The steam
ship Imperator, largest vessel afloat,
was swept by fire early today as she
lay at her dock in Hoboken, with her
crew and 1,131 steerage passengers
aboard.
Second Officer Herman drobrecht, who
led the crew into the hold to fight the
flames, was cut off from his men, en
veloped in a cloud of smoke and suffo
cated. His body .was found an hour
afterwards, untouched by fire, and
brough. ashore.
A fleet of fire fighting craft aug
mented by apparatus on shore sur
rounded the ship and poured tons of
water tntd her hold. When the fire
was checked at 8 o’clock the great ves
sel had listed 15 degrees.
STEERAGE PANIC STRICKEN.
The small army in the steerage,
aroused from their sleep by the crack
ling of flames rushed panic-stricken for
the pier, where most of them spent the
night huddled in discomfort at the shore
end of the pier.
None of the steerage passengers nad
been inspected by the customs or
health authorities. Because of this,
armed guards surrounded them. The
immigration authorities rushed them to
Ellis island at the earliest possible mo
ment this forenoon.
The great ship was dark, with all
aboard asleep save the watch officers,
when smoke, ascending from the provi
sion room, was discovered.
A quiet alarm was sounded. Com
modore Ruesser, commander-in-chief of
the vessel, was agiong the first to re
spond. The crew of 1,180 men werp in
their places within a minute. The com
plex fire fighting apparatus of the ves
sel was set in motion. Ever.y compart
ment was ordered closed except those
which it was necessary to leave open
for the steerage passengers to get
ashore.
When the steerage passengers stam
peded toward the deck, ships officers and
scores of the crew lffied up along the
route to safety, guiding the terror-
stricken men and women to the pier.
Then, with the ship clear, the entire
force turned its hand to extinguishing
the flames. *
For three-quarters of an hour they
fought the fire with only the Imperator’s
own apparatus. Then a general alarm
was sounded.
OFFICER LOSES LIFE.
In the first sharp skirmish with the
(By Associated Press.)
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 28.—-The ex
citing stage was expected to be reached
today in the trial of Drew F. Caminetti
for violation of the Mann act, with the
summoning to the witness stand of
Marsha Warrington and Lola Norris,
who accompanied Maury I. Diggs and
Caminetti on their trip to Reno, Nev.
In anticipation of a rehearsal of the
sensational stories told by the young
women at the recent trial of Diggs, •
which resulted in his conviction, scores j
of the curious filled the court room this
morning.
Before the advent of the two star
witnesses the prosecution intended to in
troduce the testimony of Reno police
officers, a hotel clerk and Martin Beas
ley, uncle of the Warrington girl, re
garding the interruption of the party’s
sojourn in a Reno bungalow.
Vv hatever the testimony of Lola Nor
ris may be, Caminetti has announced he
will not dispute it. The prosecution has
stated that it will attempt to prove that
Miss Norris was pure until she met
Caminetti and that it was in Reno that
she yielded after promises of marriage
were made to her.
Miss Norris was expected to tell sub
stantially the same narrative as in the
Diggs trial.
Thus far the wife, children and moth
er of' Caminetti have not appeared in
the court room.
Return Is Authorized by Pres
ident, if Deemed Advisable
in Lind’s Own Discretion—He
Will Probably Go
‘MOVING TIME” IS COMING
FOR BOIL WEEVIL
Woman Who Shot Divorced
Husband and Wife at Post-
office Before Judge
(By Associated Press.)
MILLEN, Ga., Aug. 28.—Mrs. Edna
flames, Second Officer Herman Gobrecht j M. Godbee, charged with tjie killing of
and Seaman Otto Stumpf, caught in the! her divorced husband and his wife
State Board Will Revise Rules
Against Quarantining
the Insect
T
MEMORY OE COL. SANDERS
Gainesville Honors Gallant
Confederate Officer-Mon
ument on Federal Ground
STRICT MILITIA RULES
OR NO FEDERAL FUNDS
A revision of the rules applying to
the state’s quarantine against the boll
weevil will be made at the meeting of
the state board of entomology next
Tuesday.
The board will probably lift the quar
antine against the shipment into the
state of cotton lint and cotton seed
hulls, but will continue the quarantine
against cotton seed. Experience has
demonstrated, according to State Ento
mologist E. Lee Worsham, that the boll
weevil is not transmited in cotton lint
and hulls.
A quarantine will doubtless be placed
upon the shipment into the state of
Spanish moss, cotton picking sacks and
other articles in which the boll weevil
hides. Professor Worsham says that the
weevil winters in Spanish moss, which
is often used to pack furniture and
ether articles.
At its meeting Tuesday the board
will also defile the quarantine line in
southwest Georgia, for the boll weevil
is expected to make its appearance be
fore frost in Decatur, Early, Clay and
possibly other border counties.
Members c*f the board of entomology
are Agricultural Commissioner J. D^
Price, chairman; R. C. Berckmans,
Augusta, president of the State Hor
ticultural society, and John T. Wil
liams, of Round Oak, president of the
Georgia State Agricultural society.
withering breath of a sheath of flame, ; the Mi u en pos toffi ce two weeks ago was Qpprpfj|»*V Dmiplc
■were cut oft from the door by whicn slven a preliminary hearing today before y L/ailieiS
they had entered. Their companions ! Magistrates Dickey and Rhodes.
... , "' ere d, iveri back to open air. Although ( when Mrs Go<3bee was flrst brought!
which 394 are in Georgia, 343 in Florida j stormed the flames again and ; jn her attorneys wkere not present.!
and 256 in South Carolina. The work ! a &ain, the wall of smoke kept them from , Agked ghe had anyt hing to say she
in this immediate section will be in di-: rescuing Gobrecht and stumpf. \V hen i rfepl j ed t hat she could say,nothing until
rect charge of Postoffice Inspecetor R. \ the ** re was checked tneir bodies were . j ier i aW y ers appeared.
E. Barry, of Atlanta, who will have the 1 found. j They were finally found and the
help of twenty-one assistant inspectors. : * hearing proceeded. There are large
No move will be made toward making! pQ§"J"Qpp|Q|T "|"Q SELL crowds here from Augusta and Waynes-
„ a list of eligible for fourth class offices 1
• paying more than $180 a year until con
gress supplies the civil service com- i
mission with funds to conduct the work. | 6
of this class of offices there are ut\ After September 1 Public May
in Gedrgia. • J
Under the rules that have been agreed j
upon by the civil service commission i
relating to the lesser important fourth j
class postofflees, the inspectors will visit j
each of the postoffices and there make a
personal investigation of the records j
PRE-CANCELLED STAMPS
Use Stamps Bearing Name
of Local Postoffice
J boro, where the deceased and the de
fendant have many relatives.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Postmaster
and qualifications of the applicants for I General Burleson today signed an order
the postmastership. They will then j which provides that pre-canc611ed postage
ertify to the department the names of stamps may be sold to the public on and
three eligibles, from among whom the
department will name a postmaster.
PARCEL POST GROWING
MORE POPULAR DAILY
Fruits and Eggs From Country
and Merchandise From
City Flood Mails
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON. Aug. 28.—Fruits,
fresh laid eggs and other farm products
are being forwarded by mail in ever
increasing quantities from the subur
ban producer to the urban breakfast ta
ble. according to Postmaster General
Burleson. The parcel post system like
wise is being increasingly used for the
transportation of manufactured articles
and postoffice officials today expressed
their pleasure at the manner in which
the public is taking advantage of the
innovation.
The order increasing the weight of
packages that may be sent through the
mail, according to the postmaster gen
eral, has been indorsed by persons in
all sections of the country. Mr. Burleson
intimated that still further elaboration
©f the system would follow.
QUITMAN NEGROES CARVE,
SHOOT, SCRAP, KILL
Wave of Crime Sweeps Over
Community and Many Ar
rests Are Made
after September 1. Pre-cancelled stamps
have printed on them the name of the
postoffice before they are sold. Such
stamps will be valid for postage on sec-
j ond, third and fourth class mail—newspa
pers and magazines mailed by the public. .
books and other printed mater, and iner-■ amon & local negroes "within the last few
chandise od parcel post matter. ! days. The negro found this morning ar-
QUITMAN, Ga., Aug. 28.—The finding
of an unknown negro dead in the old
county fair grounds this morning, shot
through the heart, is the last and worst
of a series of shootings and cuttings
The stamps wil be recognized only at
tho office named on them.
By the use of pre-cancelled stamps not
only will the transportation and delivery
of mail bearing them be expedited, but it
is estimated that the government will
save in expense of labor in cancellation
$250,000 a year.
”1 have weighed carefully,” said Post
master General Burleson today, “the
question as to whether the extension of
the use of pre-cancelled stamps would
result in loss to the postal revenues
through the re-use or fraudulent use of
such stamps. I am convinced that the
loss would be negligible as compared with
the great saving.”
Earthquake in Scotland'
(By Associated Press.)
ALLOA, Firth of Corthr,- Scotland, Aug.
28.—A slight earthquake in this vicinity
last night created great consternation
among the inhabitants, but no material
damage was caused by the disturbance.
rived here yesterday afternoon with a big
roll of bills. A skin game, it is said was
conducted at the deserted park last night
in which the visiting negro won all of a
local negro’s money. The local negro. Kid
Lewis, is said to have shot the visitor
and killed him. No attempt was made
to conceal the body and this morning
Sheriff Wade arrested Lewis and others
who participated in the game.
Night before last a country negro, Man
Peterson, was awakened by an intruder
in his room. He pursued the man, Ev^n
Jenkins, and the latter waylaid him as
he came down the road and stabbed him
almost to death. The same night Atta-
way Miller, a Quitman negro, had a quar
rel with his sister-in-law and shot her.
While he was thus engaged his wife,
Seeley Miller, was occupied with an en
tirely different quarrel in another house
and carved another woman almost to
pieces with a razor. Attaway was arrest
ed but Seeley escaped to the woods and is
in hiding.
Rode in Navy Auto
When Wilson Spoke
• (By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Secretary
Daniels has tried out many naval craft
since he deserted :he editorial chair to
direct the sea-fighting forces of the na
tion, but he announced today that never
again would he cruise in a navy yard
automobile truck. lie tried it yesterday.
When he climbed into his office today
the negro messenger who guards the
door of the office of the secretary of the
navy apprehensively looked forward to
a bad day.
Secretary Daniels, busy with a crowd
ed desk, ordered a taxicab yesterday to
take him to the capitol to hear President
Wilson read his Mexican message. When
he bounced down the steps of the big
navy building no taxicab was in sight
and he had no time to lose.
“Avast there,” he called to the skip
per of a passing navy automobile truck
who was tacking toward Pennsylvania
avenue. “Stand by, my hearty, and I’ll
board you. My own craft has slipped
its cable.”
The secretary of the navy as a passen
ger in the navv truck reached the capi
tol just in time to hear the president.
The skipper of the craft, said today the
going wasn’t any rougher than usual.
Mr. Daniels’ friends are authority for
the statement that his injuries are not
serious.
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
GAINESVILLE, Ga., Aug. 28.—Wed
nesday in Gainesville there was unveiled
on the north lawn cf the handsome post-
office the first memorial to a Confederate
soldier ever erected by a chapter of the
Children of the Confederacy. The memo
rial" also bears the unique distinction of
being the only Confederate monument
standing on a federal ground.
The memorial was erected by the C.
C. Sanders chapter, Children of Confed
eracy, in memory of the late Colonel C.
C. Sanders, who was one of the bravest
of Confederate soldiers and who for fifty
years was one of the most prominent
bankers and promoters in north Georgia,
and a well kpown citizen of Georgia.
The life size statue represents Colonel
Sanders dressed in the Confederate uni
form of a colonel, sitting in a chair with
the face looking toward the south and
the hustling, enterprising business cen
ter of the town, both of which he loved
and served so faithfully. It rests on a
pedestal supported by four marble col-
lumns. Directly beneath the statue and
in the center of the four columns is a
drinking fountain.
On the front of the pedestal is carved
"Colonel C. Sanders, 1840-1908, soldier,
patriot, colonel 24th Georgia regiment
volunteers infantry, first corps, army of
northern Virgina, C. S. A.” and at the
side facing the entrance of the postoffice
is the inscription, Erected by the C. C.
Sanders hapter, Children of Confed
eracy.”
PREPARE TO RENDER
No Funds Unless Organization
Is Same as That of the
Regular Army
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Federal
funds are not to be used after January
1 next for the organized militia of the
states unless the citizen soldiery com
plies with the law which declares their
organizations “shall be the same as that
which is now or may hereafter be pre
scribed for the regular army United
States.”
This order w r as issued by the war de
partment today. The law was passed
several years ago and Secretary Garri
son believes that “a sufficient time has
now elapsed to enable the states to more
definitely conform in organization to the
regular army.”
“If at any time the number ,of com
panies in a complete regiment falls be
low twelve, exclusive of the machine
gun company,” says the order, “the de
ficiency may be replaced within six
months, or the regimental organization
be considered as permanently abandoned,
the officers and enlisted men of the reg
imental headquarters, the headquarters
detachment, the mounted scouts and or
derlies, the machine gun company, the
band and one battalion headquarters be
ing mustered out or otherwise disposed
of.”
This principle of replacing missing
companies within six months applies
alike to Infantry, cavalry and field ar
tillery.
CULEBRA CUT TO BE
OPENED OCTOBER 5
Democratic Leaders in Senate
Will Try to Concur in the
Action of House
TIMBER LOSS FROM
FLAMES WAS SMALL
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Attributing it
to the present organization of the fire
fighting force in the forests of the coun
try, the forest service today declared that
loss from flames among growing timber
so far this year had been kept to a mini
mum. 9
It based its findings on reports from the
states which have a co-operative arrange
ment with the federal government. Under
the agreement the states are permitted to
draw on the federal trasury for funds for
fire fighting whenever unusual conditions
arise. *
(By Associated Press.)
ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 28.—Demo
cratic leaders were prepared today to
complete th^ formal recognition by the
legislature of Lieutenant Governor
Glynn as acting governor. They also
hoped to clear up the entire business
pending before the extraordinary ses
sion.
Every preparation was made for a
fight in the senate over the recognition
of Mr. Glynn as acting governor, simi
lar to that which occurred shortly aft
er midnight in the assembly.
Democratic leaders expressed deep re
sentment at the charges that have been
made publicly affecting some of the
legislators’ integrity in the Sulzer im
peachment proceedings.
MR. WILSON HOPES TO
VISIT CORNISH HOME
Hopes to Leave Washington
Thursday With Mrs, Wilson
and Miss Eleanor
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—President
"Wilson is hopeful that he may be able
to leave Washington for Cornish, N. H..
late today or tomorrow, accompanying
Mrs. Wilson and Miss Eleanor Wilson
to the summer capital.
Steam Shovel Operations Dis
continued September 15,
Water Enters October 5
(By Associated Press.)
PANAMA, Aug:. 28.—All steam shov
el opereations in Culebra Gut proper will
be discontinued September 15 and be
tween then and October 5, when the
watej will be admitted, all equipment
and other material, including thirty-
six miles of track, must be out of the
nine-mile channel between Gamboa Dike
and the Pedro Miguel lock.
The shovels formerly engaged on the
Cucaracha slide have been set to work
in a section of the cut which is not yet
fully down to grade. Ail bottom mate
rial remaining after September 15 will
be driilsd and blasted preparatory to
its removal by dredges.
On August 1 there remained to he
removed 998,900 cubic yards inside the
theoretical canal prism and the steam
shovel operations between that date and
September 15, it is estimated, will
duce the amount to 650,00 yards,
which will be removed later by the
dredges. This is exclusive of all slide
excavations and inclines.
Water will be admitted to Culebra
Cut under this arrangement October 5,
five days in advance of the date set
for the destruction of Gamboa dike. For
this purpose four twenty-six-inch pipes
extending underneath the dike and now
used for pumping the draining water
out, will be employed. It is estimated
that it would take seventeen days to
fill the canal to the level of the dike
by this method. Therefore water will
be admitted during a five-day period so
that it may act as a cushion against
the sides of the dike. The blast on
October 10 is expected to cause a small
opening in the barrier which will grad
ually increase in size until a consider
able stream flows into the cut and com
pletes the work of rilling it.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.-This was the
Mexican situation in brief today:
Huerta has withdrawn his request for
an exchange of ambassadors and asked
that the present diplomatic status contin
ue until after Mexican elections in Octo
ber. By some that was interpreted as a
concession.
‘•A Request for recognition as the “con
stitutional government ad interim” which
was coupled with the proposal for an ex
change of ambassadors was, however. In
terpreted by many officials as a practical
reiteration of the original stand of the
Huerta government.
Senor Gamboa, foreign Mexican minis
ter, pointed out that the American de
mand for elimination of Huerta would be
met by a provision of the Mexican consti
tution which makes a provisional presi
dent Ineligible to re-election. The Wash
ington government, however, desires as
surance more definite.
John Lind was authorized to return to
Mexico City from Vera Cruz, “if, in his
discretion. It seemed advisable.” It la
beli ved here he will go and that nego
tiations principally over Huerta’s retire
ment may be reopened.
President Wilson and Secretary Bryan
regarded the situation as “encouraging"
and Indicated they expected some change
In the attitude at Mexico City.
American consular offices throughout
Mexico were rounding up Americans, ad
vising them to leave Mexico.
Major General Wood was to take per
sonal charge of any military measures
to effect strict neutrality.
Senor Gamboa’s note of August 26 of
ficially had not been received here early
today, but upon a summary transmitted
by John Lind, administration officials
declared the United States would not
yield on its demand that Victorianp
Huerta should not be a candidate for
the Mexico presidency.
MEXICAN CONSTITUTION QUOTED.
Senor Gamboa calls attention to a
clause In the Mexican constitution which
prohibits a provisional president from
succeeding himself, and charges that the
United States was oversusplclous In
thinking that Huerta would enter the
race. Administration officials here In
answer to tho point declared that to ap- (
ply that clause of the constitution to
Huerta was in fact a recognition of
Huerta as the constitutionally chosen
provisional president, a circumstance
they consider contradicted by irregular
ities.
There Is, In the view of administration
officials here, also no guarantee that
Huerta does not intend resigning so
that he might become a candidate. Of
ficials called attention to what they
construe as a flat declaration that
Huerta Intends to be a candidate, con
stitutional barrlfers notwithstanding.
They point to the following paragraph
in Senor Gamboa’s first reply, saying:
The request that General Vlctorlano
Huerta should agree not to appear as a
candidate for the presidency in the com
ing election cannot be taken into con
sideration, because, aside from its
strangeand unwarranted character, there
is a risk that the same might be inter
preted as a matter of personal dislike.
This point can be only decided by Mex
ican public opinion, when it may be ex
pressed at the polls.”
From that, administration officials be
lieve there is every Intention to launch
Huerta’s candidacy while the govern
ment ministry Is In possesslo of some
trusted lieutenant. Besides the view Is
taken that the constitutionalists never
would quit unless Huerta were abso
lutely eliminated. They have insisted
that positive announcement by Huerta
that he will not be a candidate is a
fundamental perquisite to establishment
of peace.
Gambao’s statement that the United
States failed to consider that para- *
graph of the Mexican constitution which
refers to ineligibility for re-election of
provisional presidents, is denied by tho
administration here. President Wilsop
is known to have convassed the Mexi
can constitution and all its amendments
recently, and it is contended that even
though Mexico were at peace, the con
stitutionality of Huerta’s provisional
presidency is a matter of serioils legal
dispute.
* The point is made ^that the resigna
tions of Madero and Saurez were forced
by duress and on those fundamentals
the United States takes the position
that it has the right to inquire into the
legality of the executive who seeks rec
ognition. The United States will con~-
tinue to insist that it can extend recog
nition only to a constitutionally chosen
provisional president or his legally
elected successor.
Administration officials see a way out
of the difficulty if the Mexican congress,
convoked of its own accord, should des
ignate a provisional president who
would call an election, but there is no
doubt that the United States would con
tinue to voice its opposition to iHu-
erta.
Sofne optimism was gleaned from tho
withdrawal ot the request that the
United States and Mexico immediate
ly exchange ambassadors. Senor Gam
boa asks now that the embassies be
maintained with their present staffSv
but that they should recognize the ad
Interim government of Mexico as con
stitutional. >>
After an early conference with Sec
retary Bryan and Chairman Bacon, of
the senate foreign relations committee.
President Wilson let it be known he
belived the situation in Mexico was en
couraging. The president thinks things
are changing in Mexico City and that
something tangible soon will be known.
There was no evidence here early today
that the Huerta government had agreed
to the American plan, but tho disposi^
tion of the Mexican administration to
withdraw some of its proposals encour
aged the belief in official circles that
the president’s message is having a good
effect in Mexico.
Should Mr. Lind deem it advisable to
return to Mexico City to continue in
person the negotiations he is conducting
by teegraph from Vera Cruz he has au
thority from Washington to do so. It
is considered quite probable that he will
gro.
Wilson’s message on Mexican situation
on page